Microsoft went to shit after Gates stepped off. Apple's

>>59033907
watch any Q&A Linus video where he gets asked exactly that and fuck off.

>>59033907
>controls the direction of the development

:^)

>>59033962
link?

Gates never controlled anything technology. Even the DOS OS was bought off from someone else. Same with Apple whatever the sperglords will claim.

>>59033907
the big name kernel maintainers are pretty identical to Torvalds in terms of philosophy and work ethic

when THOSE guys croak though, no idea.

>>59033995
>cant search videos
>is on technology board
get a load of this guy

>>59033995
Do you know what a search bar is? Use the one on jewtube.

How are faggots like you even on /g/?

People will have switched to hurd by then.

I'll just use the best OS avialable. Right now that's GNU+Linux.

Canonical will take care of it.

>>59033907
Linux will finally get a thumbnail view in file picker

>>59033907

> Linus dies
> Somebody from Finnland makes a fork of Linux
> Everybody's using Finnix
> Praise GPLv2

no, he is not. He is already step down from maintaining stable-branch. Google about Greg Kroah-Hartman.

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>>59033907
He will continue to berate incompetence and asinine suggestions from beyond the grave via inline comments which mysteriously appear in the code when the pull requests are made. A ghost in the git.

Linus stepped off ages ago. He doesn't write code these days, he merges the pulls

>>59037397
but his name is still on almost every changelog?

>>59037477
One can only hope.

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>>59033907
>Microsoft went to shit after Gates stepped off.
lolno

Old chart I know, but hasn't changed much trust me.

>>59039064
>oh no, computers are selling more these days
dumb wintoddler

>>59039095
But they aren't, anon. Due to smartphones and tablets, they aren't.

>gates
>good times
>browser wars, IE crap being forced on everyone with proprietary tech
>buying companies just to kill off competition

Gates had the most aggressive and "embrace extend and extinguish" policies of all Microsoft CEOs. Most focused on proprietary standards too.

The current Microsoft is actually more accepting of open source and non-proprietary standards.

>>59033907
>I don't remember the "Embrace, extend extinguish" era!
Microsoft was always shit, even when - actually especially when - Gates was at the helm.

>>59033907
The numales take over and spend the next decade removing problematic terminology from the code.

>>59039165

Yea and that era gave (you) Win 95, 2000 and Xp.

This "accepting" Microsoft gave you Win 10.

Really fires your neurons.